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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Teaser Tuesday[16]: The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB over atShould Be Reading! All you
have to do to participate is:

Grab your current read

Open to a random page

Share two (2) “teaser” sentences
from somewhere on that page

BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!
(make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to
ruin the book for others!)

Share the title & author, too,
so that other TeaserTuesday participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if
they like your teasers!

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I have gotten very little reading done lately. I went
to Wordstock over the weekend (as you can see in my Updates box in the right
hand corner) and it was amazing. Saw some very cool authors, got a ton of
bookmarks and extra little things. Also heard about several new books that I now
want.

But, the internet did not want to work while I was
away, and I was too exhausted to do any reviewing or homework, and then I was
sick, and then kind of still sick, and now I have way too much homework to
catch up on and a bunch of reviews to write up and I bought most of the Marsseries so all I want to do is read that, but I have classes and homework that
take top priority, plus an extra kind of school related activity tonight and on
Saturday. And there is just way too much stuff for me to do and so very little
time to do it all. School, I think, is catching up with all of my other, more
fun, stuff, which is not good. I am a bit overwhelmed at the moment.

As I said, I am mostly reading the Mars series right
now, because it is amazing and I have all but two volumes. I love reading it
all over again; it's nice seeing all the characters and events that all over again, since it's been so long since I first read it. But, I am currently kind of still reading:

It happens at the start
of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of
their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some
riders live. Others die.

At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the
returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any
fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them.

Puck
Connolly is different. She never meant to ride in the Scorpio Races.
But fate hasn’t given her much of a chance. So she enters the
competition — the first girl ever to do so. She is in no way prepared
for what is going to happen.

Excerpts:

“So tonight is the night of the great Scorpio Festival.”
(Hardcover, pg. 160)

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Updates.

9/29/16 (re-edit)My review days are changing to Monday - Thursday. I'm planning to do reviews on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. Tuesday will be Teasers, possibly with a little wishlist or catch-up included. I am currently moving, and have just started back in school. Third year of college, and working, and I am starting to have very little time for everything. I'm trying to keep up with this, though, on top of it all.

Thanks!-Jude

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